The pond has only got one post in it today, before the heat sweeps it off to an air conditioner ... so it'll try to survey the reptile scene, but has one big complaint ...
You see the Donald tweets in the early hours, and that happens to coincide with night time viewing, and as a result the astonishing train wreck, the beyond the circus routines, of federal politics make compelling viewing, and sweep away all thoughts of local stoushes ...
These days the pond gets no sleep, as the elephants trample everything in sight ...
In recent times and in no particular order, and having trashed polls as fake news, the Donald has linked to polls which he claims support him and his policies - here no apparent contradictions - and to a steaming pile saying his administration is seen as more truthful to news media, and tweeted the infamous terrible! attack on Nordstrom in support of his daughter - here no conflict of interest - not to mention Melania claiming in a legal action that she shouldn't be deprived of the chance to make out like a bandit ...
Be sad here.
And then came the 'shoot the messenger' attacks on Blumenthal - from a man who dodged 'Nam in a shameless way - and the usual on McCain, as featured above ...
Now they can look after themselves, but there's a reason the Donald couldn't take it out on his nominee ...
That's at CNN here ...
This puts Gorsuch in a deliciously difficult situation. He can't pander to the Donald. When asked in public hearing if he said the words his spokesperson has admitted him saying, he has to confirm. If he didn't, if he tried to pander to the Donald, all credibility would be shot.
But if he refuses to pander, and admits he's disheartened and demoralised, what does the Donald do and say and tweet about his nominee?
The pond has no idea how Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer sleep at night ... perhaps it's because they don't lie straight in bed ... even ethics lawyers finally had to pay attention to Conway's disdain for truth and conventions and ethics ...
In the land of the hustler, everything's a hustle ...
The local reptile scene is small beer up against the Donald circus, which shows no sign of abating or slackening the daily pace of hysteria and paranoia (oh yes, the Donald is busy tweeting the drums of terrorism as well, doing all he can to empower the terrorists and turn them into an existential demonic threat. How they must love and admire him ...)
Still, the pond did try, before setting out on its mission to produce a power overload in NSW, and couldn't help but notice this piquant reptile juxtaposition ...
Yes, it's all SA's fault ... except NSW ...
Meanwhile, after ScoMo's fatuous use of coal - the teenage mind in the man's body - the reptiles made a fatal mistake by running a story on coal ...
That piece concluded this way ...
It doesn't seem to occur to anyone that clean coal has been a chimera, a unicorn, pursued at vast expense in many corners of the world ...
Google Kemper clean coal Mississippi and you'll end up with a veritable blizzard of stories ...
Like this Mississippi Watchdog story here ...
This is what Malware, ScoMo and the others want to hang their hats on? That's about as clever as the results of privatisation and the chaotic national grid with each operator out to maximise the action, or lack of action as the case may be ...
Speaking of Malware, Bolter and other curmudgeons aside, the reptiles remain wildly excited about the "new Malcolm", no longer apparently in the middle ...
Amidst all the excitement - ScoMo, coal, vaudeville, wind energy, climate denialism, huzzah - the pond had only time for one representative Oz reptile sample ...
Because we can never get enough misogyny ...
Oh wait, the Crowe wasn't demanding more misogyny.
After years of decrying Gillard's misogyny speech, and deploring it as a fatal mistake and a vicious assault on angry older white males scribbling furiously for the Catholic Boys' Daily, suddenly the reptiles see this new sort of aggression as the way forward ...
The Crowe's mournful cry almost made it sound like he had some doubts, before he came good at the end with a hearty squawk in Malware's favour ...
Meanwhile, the downmarket low-rent terrorists called on Sharri for a motion in support ...
Now the pond only visits the Terrorist reptiles for the puns and the pictures, but Sharri had to be shortened to fit it all in ...
What a silly attempt at a new mythology. What a silly picture.
Is there any wonder that the pond had to drop in on the immortal Rowe here for a better illustration?
What about the Gold Pass indeed!? Good on ya Ian ... thank the long absent lord there's someone still battling for the hard done by, persecuted, long-suffering hapless politicians of the land.
Sob, there's no perks left any more, and the pay's rotten, and ... talk to the hand, you absolute goose ...
But now it's back to Sharri for a couple of quick gobbets pumping up the volume and trying to confirm the new mythology ....
Say what? Suddenly we're getting the real Malcolm on same sex marriage, climate science and the republic and his real personality?
By getting ScoMo to do a coal comedy routine?
Oh it's rich enough, all this ... even if it's nowhere near the Donald ...
So it was the poodle setting his tame pit bull on to the Shorten lap dog of the Toorak rich that put it all in motion? The poodle doing a Bugs?
Take that Malware, the poodle knows how to strike ...
Well it's a better illustration than this one ...
Yes, that's just what we need, mutton Dutton running a new thought police super ministry ... that'll show the gentler side of Malware and his love of the gays ...
It's harder to imagine who deserves the greater pity and contempt ... Sharri feeling the fear for Malware, smelling the sense of electoral defeat, or Malware himself, deep into coal delusionalism and denial as the new way forward ...
Is there any good news as opposed to the usual parochial provincialism?
That'll do, that'll do...
And now the pond must head off to take down the state's electricity grid ...
But before we go, the final word should be left to the Pope, who draws together today's fragile themes, and with more papal pronouncements here ...
Remember when Turnbull believed climate change was real and threatening? That belonged to the leather-bomber-jacket period. Now he is devotee of a fossil-fuel-led-future. Witness Morrison's evangelical hoisting of a hunk of coal yesterday, held above his head like a monstrance.
ReplyDeleteThese people are forcing the reluctant burgers of this country into a ramshackle coal cart with a wonky wheel and pulled by a dead horse. It is not enough to put 'clean' in front of coal and claim it will solve our energy problems. It is crippling expensive by the way.
Did you know that Holland's trains now run on wind energy?
Miss pp
Dorothy
ReplyDeleteHow do we fight back against the right wing in this country when we have a Prime Minister who has completely changed his stance on so many of the crazy right wing ideologies and is now backing what was proposed by Abbott.
But what is now so frustrating is the media are supporting and encouraging Turnbull
to pursue these policies. Policies that he was against when he was leader of the opposition.
I would like to see Labor hit back with some of the underhand deals he did when he was minister under Howard like donating $10 million to a relative of Rupert and that same creature was dinning with Malcolm before parliament sat so he could give him his marching orders
You're right ww. The MSM have been barracking this week that Turdball has his mojo back, all on the basis of a spiteful speech he made in parliament, one full of personal jibes at Labor (when is Malware going to take responsibility and realise he is the government, not Shorten?).
DeleteOf course that's what the MSM just love to see, because it makes very easy copy. In fact, they've got it pretty good at the moment, what with the Trump juggernaut and Bernardi leaving the Libs. The TV news items and press articles must be writing themselves.
Jacuzzi's hot, Cristal is so cold
DeleteNeighbors catch contacts, from the blunts that I've rolled
"...(when is Malware going to take responsibility and realise he is the government, not Shorten?)."
DeleteYair, that's spot on, Merc. That has to be some kind of aberrant psychology complex - it's related to 'projection' I think - eg Malcontent is seeing in Shorten the leader he thinks he should be - which is a kind of inverse 'projection' I guess (injection ?).